In this recipe, we will crack hashes using John the Ripper and the password lists. We will also work with a local shadow file from a Linux machine and we will try to recover passwords based off wordlists.
Cracking password hashes with a wordlist
Getting ready
Let's ensure the following prerequisites:
- Your Kali machine is powered up
- You have some sample users and passwords setup on your Linux machine
- You copied the shadow file to your Kali root directory
How to do it...
We will now attempt to crack passwords using a pre-defined wordlist:
- Verify you have the shadow...